The Community Charge (aka Poll Tax) was replaced by Council Tax in 1993. Local Government has been starved of funds over the last decade and many authorities face going bankrupt. The causes of the local government funding crisis are well documented, especially the increasing costs of social care. Us...

The sooner it's put out of our misery the better. Poor reporting and an advert laden website. They're closing their print titles and focusing more on their Live brand. http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/editor-of-six-regional-newspapers-is-first-to-go-in-mass-redundancies-at-trinity-mirror-under-new-digi...

At the risk of repeating myself, at the moment a Hertford Bypass is simply a concept (the word used in the LTP). If there is broad agreement on the principle then the County Council will start looking at potential routes and associated costs before staging public consultations. Obviously, the shorte...

I don't think there would be huge danger of "infilling" by developers between Hertford and a bypass if there are no junctions off it between Cole Green and the A10 and it is sufficiently far away from the town. This is what the draft Local Transport Plan has to say about a Hertford Bypass...